Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka